If you ever get tired of ISP garbage, Calyx offers unlimited internet as long as you are in 4G/5G range. Your payment also goes to supporting a privacy rights group instead of down the corporate drain
This is actually pretty neat.
The case, settled ten years after it was filed, influenced how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) can acquire personal information. Inspired by this, Merrill founded the Calyx Institute, a 501©(3) organization, to raise awareness about online privacy, surveillance, and accessibility through software development, research advocacy, and cross-sector partnerships.
Again, if they have the technology to correctly bill you for those fees, they have the technology to tell you what they are before they bill you for them. It’s the same damn thing.
long nightmare
That’s just US of Corpokistan chasing EU…
I can’t really blame them. Counting all of that profit money takes a whole shitload of time and leaves very little room for value.
My ISP every few months:
"We can upgrade yo-
Does the upload speed upgrade too?
"Well, no- click
I just switched ISPs because the one I had never gave me the speed I was paying out the ass for and had constant outages. I switched and became the first house in my street with fiber. Now everyone is getting it. My bill is also $50 less than it was before. Only upsides. I think the deals are so good because my new ISP used to be terrible until the company got bought out and renamed. Now they’re the best around me by far.
I had AT&T Gigabit symmetric fiber once and it was glorious.
My favorite is Spectum’s “Gig” (I guess too many people can’t pronounce 1 Gbps) plan is like, significantly slower than their 600 Mbps or even their 400 Mbps like 80% of the time.
One guhbips
Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it’s more bilingual friendly
Well they makes me curious what the “upgrade” entails. 🤔 Have they ever told you?
Faster download it’s always faster download and never understand any circumstances upload.
I get 1gig down and 10megs up… On spectrum.
I changed provider after they tried to tell me 1/4 Mbps was more than enough. It didn’t even have packet shaping. As soon as Google photos tried to back up, the packet returns required to lead webpages started falling over. It was painful.
Not to defend spectrum, but there is an actual reason for this besides malice.
Coax cable internet uses analog switching and routing between you and your ISPs first Ethernet hop. It’s basically a series of unconfigurable hardware low-pass and high-pass filters to ensure that upload traffic and download traffic flow cleanly.
When cable internet started and these systems were installed in your neighborhood, a range of low-frequency (low-bandwidth) channels were selected for uploads, and a range of high-frequency (high-bandwidth) channels were selected for downloads, going off the assumption that more people wanted downloads than anything else.
Fast-forward to today, and the ISPs don’t really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago. The only way to redirect the flow and assignment of channels would be to rip out and replace all of those analog filters, and they’re not going to do that because grandma isn’t going to go without cable for 3 weeks. Grandma will call, get angry, and pick a new cable provider. Grandma is by far their most consistent and profitable customer.
ISPs don’t really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago.
I think there is actually a choice in there somewhere.
They just run a new fiber line to every customer that says “I need symmetric speeds, please”.
If you’re willing to pay they probably will, but it’s something that’s generally very expensive, so not something they advertise. If you’re serious about it, look into business offerings.
Paying the ISP to run a new fiber cable yourself is 10-50k.
The ISP can do this at a better price if they do a neighborhood all at once due to economies of scale.
The US government already paid the ISP to run fiber in like the 90s. They should give the money back with interest or lay the fucking fiber
Wait, wouldn’t you want 9 more down then? Who wants asymmetric speeds with faster upload than down?
They’re getting 10 MBit up, not 10 GBit
Oh fuck, that should be illegal
10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.Wut. Corporate monopolies of shitty cable companies maximizing personal profit at the expense of clients is like the most capitalistic thing you could have.
2nd world countries would be much more capable of providing good internet service.
I’m not convinced the US is a first-world country.
Neither are we
~ Americans
It’s not.
I remember how happy I was when I got 50mb upload… About 20 years ago?
I’m sorry, I didn’t understand any of that. 😬
Download - data go beep boop from someone else’s computer to yours
Upload - data go beep beep from your computer to someone elselmao I know, I’m a web developer by profession. 😆
Faster download it’s always faster download and never understand any circumstances upload.
But what the fuck does this sentence mean?
“Understand” should be “under”. It’s shitty autocorrect. Probably written on an iPhone. I fucking hate autocorrect on the default iPhone keyboard.
I thought you webdevs were good with implied semicolons because of JavaScript lol
Hey-ooh! 🥁
Missing punctuation, add
,or:after “Faster download” to fix the syntax errorand never understand any circumstances upload.
I guess this part should substitute understand for just “under”?
Man, some real sloppy proof reading. 😆
Fuck this administration
The entire e administration as well as ice should be put into camps after this is said and done.
I prefer high security jail, and trials to make Nuremberg blush.
I have bad news for how the Nuremberg trials generally wound up.
Idk man, I’m more inclined to enslave them until they pay off their debt.
What is it, now? 5k per American person? Seems like a life in slavery is proper reparations.
Edit: and that’s only discussing what they owe Americans.
No socialism for fascists. They like the death penalty so much, I say ‘oblige them’, in no sweeter terms.
They keep unironically saying it’s “open season” of Dems and liberals, so I say let’s flip it the fuck around.
We really did not execute enough at Nuremberg. I agree that prison would be a waste with such crimes.
Honestly. Send them all to antarctica.
That’ll drive the flerfs wild!
Hey, that doesn’t make any sense! In 2024, lemmy.ml assured us all that Biden hadn’t made any improvements to America!
And Hexbear was singing Trump’s praises. Let’s all remember this fact: Tankies love Trump and hate Democrats, even if sometimes they claim otherwise that’s just them putting the mask on.
That sounds like a bigger nightmare
Fuck any internet provider that hides fucking fees. If my bill suddenly goes up next month I know exactly what caused it and will act accordingly by not paying that bullshit fees.
This kind of shit is why the CFPB was and very much IS needed!
And also a classic case of regulatory capture, of course.
Looks like I’m aiming pringles can directional antennas at McDonalds again like the 00’s.
pringles can is too small, you need a can 8cm in diameter minimum. 400ml cans won’t do but bigger ones, 800ml, 1200ml will work https://www.wikarekare.org/Antenna/WaveguideCan.html
Old folgers coffee can it is.
For 2.4GHz *
pringles can would work okay for 5ghz but making feed element for that band would be hard without expensive test equipment
NanoVNA’s are pretty cheap for ~$100-200, though that being said I’ve only looked at them for ~1GHz work
I’ve got one sitting by my TV, haven’t ever used it. I’ll fiddle with it today to see how high it can measure.
some variants go above 2.4GHz but going over 5GHz is entirely different thing
Internet in America has always been a ripoff.
What would you expect in a 1st world country?
Gotta nationalize public utilities for that to be decent.
Especially when you consider how many subsidies the telecoms get
But… The efficiency of consolidation!! /$
